“Kurt & Courtney”: What’s Love Got To Do With It?

"Kurt & Courtney": What's Love Got To Do With It?

Despite the late-starting, specially added docfest midnightscreening, a large crowd was not discouraged at a New Yorksneak preview of Nick Broomfield’s “Kurt & Courtney” on Friday night.

Garnering extraordinary press for being slighted by the 1998 SundanceFilm Festival, and facing a filibuster from Courtney Love’s attorneysbefore its Roxie Theater screening in San Francisco, docfest gave peoplea taste of what Love was afraid Broomfield would show.

“Kurt & Courtney” is merely a forum that airs a variety of potentialcircumstances surrounding the untimely death of Kurt Cobain.Broomfield starts his investigation by tracing the troubled childhood ofthe late Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain, and Hole’s frontwomanCourtney Love.

What Broomfield is able to capture is the essence of a tragic man whoseems chained to a tragic fate. Even though the film toys with thequestion “Who killed Kurt Cobain?,” the fascinating moments of the filmexplore the turnaround life of musician-turned-actress Courtney Love.People such as Hank Harrison (Love’s father) and El Duce (an S & Mrocker from L.A.) leave an indelible impression on the audience’s minds asthey sketched a not-so-fantastic picture of the volatile Love. El Duce goes sofar as to tease audiences with the succinct phrase, “I know who killedKurt Cobain”.

Coincidentally, on the day of the New York screening, allstarmag.com andaddict.com reported that Courtney Love is being sued by Belissa Cohen —a Los Angeles journalist — who claims that Love allegedly pulled herhair, kneed her in the groin, and then hit her in the face after shestarted taking pictures of the singer and actress who posedvoluntarily.